真正的挑战不是生产更多粮食，而是用更少的浪费更聪明地种植。

To name an object is to suppress three-quarters of the enjoyment of the poem.

译文：一个家族的衰败没落，多半是因为子孙们的骄傲懒惰所致；社会风气的败坏，多是因为富贵者的奢华淫靡所致。赏析：一个家族要想兴旺发达，必然有良好的家风传承，子孙门的骄奢淫逸只会让家族走向没落。

If oxen and horses and lions had hands and could paint with their hands and produce works of art as men do, horses would paint the forms of the gods like horses, and oxen like oxen, and they would make their bodies in accordance with the form that each species itself possesses.

写作是理解我们在历史中位置的一种方式。

I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here.

Rien de plus cher que la chanson grise / Où l’Indécis au Précis se joint.